T-Mobile/Sprint, Dish Lock Horns Over Transaction Data
T-Mobile/Sprint and Dish Network letters at the FCC argue over which economic models better capture the effect of the proposed deal between the carriers. At issue is which numbers are better -- Cornerstone’s Nielsen Mobile Performance (NMP) data set favored…
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by T-Mobile/Sprint or Brattle Group filed on behalf of Dish. “Brattle’s income estimates are more realistic than those used by Cornerstone, which simply assumes that all consumers in the same zip code have the same income,” Dish said in a redacted filing in docket 18-197. “Brattle’s method for estimating income (based on the income brackets reported by the majority of consumers in Cornerstone’s NMP data set, as well as other data set characteristics) was accurately and explicitly disclosed.” T-Mobile/Sprint fired back, posted Friday. “DISH now admits that the Brattle Economists ‘used an unconditional expectation of income … for both respondents and non-respondents,’” the carriers said. “In other words, DISH concedes it manufactured ‘an estimated unconditional expectation of income’ and used that ‘data’ in the place of the NMP survey.”